The Love Story hitmaker was thought to have shelled out £2.8m for an oceanside estate in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts last summer so she could be closer to the 18-year-old son of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

However, Swift jokes that's simply not the case, telling Spanish TV show El Hormiguero: "People say that I'm buying houses all the time that I'm not buying. It's like every time the press thinks I like a guy, they say I am buying a house next to them."

The media struck again just before the holidays, with reports suggesting the country star was shopping for autographed Fab Four items for her then-boyfriend Styles of One Direction, but the tabloids were all mistaken.

Swift continues: "And also they think they know what I'm getting people for Christmas, which they don't. I was thinking when I saw that one (rumour) that if they actually got it right I would be so sad because they would have blown my Christmas present, but they were all wrong."